Though Ray was initially inspired by Diane Arbus’s 1967 photograph of identitcal twins, the concept of Ray’s series “Twins” became “less journalisticand more abstract,” she writes, with nuance in what her subjects shared and where they differ. “In connecting two complete strangers as modelswho share a juxtaposed likeness, I created the narrative of a strange, ‘sisterly’ bond—reflective of one another, but not entirely the same.”